Sho’nuff has passed away:
Character actor Julius Carry died Aug. 19 in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer. He was 56.Carry appeared in more than 100 guest roles including “Hill Street Blues,” “Jag,” “Spin City” and “Moesha.”
He also appeared as the villain Sho’nuff in the cult pic “The Last Dragon.” Other feature credits included “The New Guy,” “Moving,” “World Gone Wild,” “The Man With The Red Shoe” and “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.” Born in Chicago, his first screen credit was in “Disco Godfather.” Carry is survived by his wife Naomi.

There's a thin line between love and hate indeed and actress LisaRaye -Misick has the bruises to prove it. E3 reported earlier this week about the violent altercation between LisaRaye and soon to be ex-husband Premier Michael Misick at their mansion in Turks and Caicos Island on last week. LisaRaye had returned to the TCI last Wednesday, reportedly to negotiate a temporary spousal-support agreement until their divorce is finalized but, according to our sources, this process had gone very badly from her standpoint. Now photos of LisaRaye have surfaced showing the bruises that Mr. Misick left behind from that night.

Soul singer Isaac Hayes passed today at age 65.
Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film “Shaft,” has died, sheriff’s officials in Memphis, Tennessee, said Sunday. Relatives found Hayes unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill. Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Our prayers go out to the Hayes family.

Bernie Mac died Saturday at age 50 from complications of pneumonia in a Chicago-area hospital, his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.
"The world just got a little less funny," said "Oceans" co-star George Clooney.
Don Cheadle, another member of the "Oceans" gang, concurred: "This is a very sad day for many of us who knew and loved Bernie. He brought so much joy to so many. He will be missed, but heaven just got funnier."
Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

Trina and her boyfriend, NBA player Kenyon Martin, were involved in a car accident in Belize on Friday. The couple was traveling in a police motorcade on their way from the airport when their Ford Excursion was struck by a minivan on the highway.
Trina and Martin were unharmed, but the driver of the minivan, George Abraham, and his two young sons were injured. Abraham has accused Trina and Martin’s driver of being in the wrong.

Scott Storch remains in the broke house, he was once considered one of the "go to" producers in music. He was crafting hit after hit over the years, but as of late, his chart topping hits are few and far between, and reports of financial problems continue to surface. His empire seems to be sinking, thanks to his lavish way of living, excessive spending, and poor money management, not to mention to downsizing music industry. Storch once commanded an estimated $100,000 per beat. But with the decline of music sales, labels refuse to pay those prices any longer.
According to reports, 34-year-old Storch is nowhere to be found these days. The Associated Press reports that Storch owes over $500,000 in real estate taxes for his $10.5 Miami waterfront mansion, and previously had warrants out for his arrest for not turning up in court in his child-support case in June.

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The three NYPD detectives in the Sean Bell case were acquitted Friday on all charges.BACKSTORY: Sean Bell died in a hail of 50 bullets fired by a group of New York police officers outside a strip club in Queens on Nov. 25, 2006. Bell was leaving his bachelor party with two friends and was to be married later that day to his fiancee and mother of children Nicole Paultre. The case ignited the emotions of people across the city and led to widespread protests among those who felt the officers used unnecessary force.

The financee of Sean Bell, weeps as she leaves the courtroom with her mother, Laura Paultre (2nd left) and the Reverend Al Sharpton (R) after the not guilty verdict on all counts was given by Judge Arthur Cooperman.

Orish Grinstead, founding member of R&B girl group 702 out of Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away on Sunday, April 20th from kidney failure. She was 27 years old. Orish, who created the group along with her twin sister, Irish and big sister Lameisha, was what friends called 'a good person, sweet, sincere, humble and full of life.' The Las Vegas-based group spawned R&B hits such as “Steelo” and “Get It Together” back in the late 90s. The sisters (along with their cousin Amelia) made their recorded debut on Subway's hit single This Lil' Game We Play (watch below.) Before their solo album No Doubt was recorded and released in the fall of 1996, Orish left the group and was replaced by childhood friend, Kameelah Williams.

British soul star Corinne Bailey Rae's musician husband has been found dead of a suspected drugs overdose. The body of saxophonist Jason Rae, 31, was discovered in a Leeds, England apartment on Saturday.